Archive for October, 2006

Reliability of SOAP over HTTP Web Services

Sunday, October 29th, 2006
HTTP or HTTPS can be viewed as the current de-facto standard transport binding for Web services. It is frequently said, however, that HTTP is inherently unreliable and not appropriate in situations where guaranteed delivery and other Quality of Service (QoS) characteristics are required. To deal with this issue, many Web services products, commercial and open-source, [...]

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Using Schema Validation with JAXB and XFire

Thursday, October 5th, 2006
Schema validation framework that I covered earlier is actually fully supported by JAXB. If you're using XFire, you will have to switch to JAXB binding in order to utilize it. As described in XFire documentation, you can specify "schema" element as part of your service definition and point it to your schema. From what I understand, [...]

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